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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEGv WATSON FULLER, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

STATION-NDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,398, dated March23, 1886.

Application filed August 5, 1884.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WATSON FULLER, of Atlanta, in the county of Fultonand State of Georgia, have invented a new and ImprovedStation-Indicator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improvedstation-indicator, which is so constructed that it shows and indicatesthe successive station names in proper order in several parts of the carat the same time, so that all the occupants of the car can easily seethe several names.

The invention consists in the combination, with a shaft, of a series ofrollers or drums on the same, boxes surrounding the drums, and rollersor drums journaled in the boxes below the drums on the shaft; and toeach pair of drums or rollers in each box a band is secured, on whichthe names of the stations are produced. On one end of the shaft acogwheel is secured, which engages with a pinion provided with a handlehaving a pin, which can be passed into apertures in the side of a boxsurrounding the'cog-wheels, for the purpose of holding the shaft inplace.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthisspecification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the gures.

Figure l is a longitudinal elevation of part of the inside of a carprovided with my improved station-indicator. Fig. 2 is a front View ofone indicator-box, parts being broken out. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectionalelevation of the same on the line x Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side view of thesame. Fig. 5 is a side view of the box containing the mechanism foroperating the indicator. Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the same onthe line y y, Fig. 5.

A horizontal rod or shaft, A, is journaled on the inner side of the carB, at the top of or above the windows C, and at each pier D, or at eachalternate pier, it passes through a box, E.

. In each box E a pulley or drum, F, is mounted on the rod or shaft A,and below the drum F a pulley or drum, G, is journaled in the box, oneend of a spiral spring, H, being secured on one pivot of the drum G andthe other end being secured to the box.

Between the drums or rollers F G a strip,

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J is arranged parallel with the rollers, ashort distance behind thefront of the box E, which strip has its top and bottom edges beveled. Ahorizontal slot, K, is produced in the front of the box E, directly infront of the strip J, and above the said slot the words The next stationis, or any equivalent phrase, is produced on the front of the box E. Aband or belt, L, on which the names of the stations are producedtransversely in their proper order, or other information, is securedtothe drums or pulleys F and G, and is passed over the strip J in themanner shown in Fig. 3.

On the end of the shaft A a cog-wheel, M, is mounted, which engages witha pinion, N, on the outer end of the pivot of which a crank-handle, O,is mounted, 'which has a spring, S, provided on its free end with apin,P, adapted to be passed into apertures Q, ar ranged in a circle in thesides of a box, R, containing the wheels M N. The handle O is alsoprovided with a knob, T, secured to the spring.

The operation is as follows: The bands L in the several boxes E arewound on the drums or rollers F by turning the shaft A by means of thehandle O. All the springs H are thus brought in tension. After the firststation has been passed, the brakeman or conductor pulls the handle-pinP out of its aperture Q and moves it to the next aperture Q, into whichit is permitted to snap. By the abovedescribed movement of the handletheshaft A and the several rollers F are turned so as to unwind as much ofeach band L as is required i'or one stationname, and so on for eachstation, the several names appearing succcssivel y behind orin the slotsK. The springs H wind the bands on the rollers G as rapidly as they areuuwound from the rollers F. Vhen the train runs in the inversedirection, the shaft S is turned in the inverse direction and theseveral bands L are gradually wound pon the drums or pulleys F, and thesprings H are brought in tension.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination,with the shaft A, of the rollers F on the same, theboxes E, the rollers G, the bands L, the cog-wheel M on one end of theshaft A, the pinion N, the handle O, the

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pin P, and the box R, having a circle of apertures Q in one side,substantially as herein Y shown and described.

WATSON FULLER. Witnesses:

E. P. KING, R. E. BOYD.

